There is it, Squad B's mission is complete! Although they had more injuries than they would like, one of the most skilled Mavericks of the Neo Maverick Army was defeated.

It's funny as the author seeing how this fight unfolded in a completely different way from I had planned back in 2016. And even when I remade my plans while the fight was being made, I changed it again and again until it depended on whether Encore's right arm was in the right angle to perform the killing move. That's what happens when you need the good guys to defeat the villain but the villain is smart enough to always make the best available movements and will keep surprising them every second with a new sick maneuver. Although it can make me stay stuck in a scene, the challenge of making creativity efforts to solve problems and beat the boss is an experience I feel with the Maverick Hunters and is what makes me feel proud of each fight, even if the execution was not as good as I had in mind.

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While the united efforts of the Maverick Hunters win the battle, Lord Kerbekeros can only blame his subordinates. She will remember that.

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In the end, destiny's irony makes Baronel meet his end in a simple morph ability he forgot to care about.

I had to change the perspective in this scene not only to make it more clear but because I wanted to check if the angles would work for this buster swap trick.

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Baronel has exhausted his weapon energy, but his unstoppable will to complete his mission is enough for him to nullify all Encore's attempts and become a living prison-sarcophagus.

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Hopefully this time their teamwork won't end up with a deadly laser coming straight into Encore's face.

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Encore might be getting a helmet in the next Season or else he will have his skin burned everytime he needs to absorb a lot of energy.

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Assure your back is safe and flock your enemies in a single side, then pull out of your sleeves some massive area attack that they won't be able to dodge. That has been Baronel's tactic the whole fight, and he would keep doing that forever... if he could.

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Now only Red Thunder and Encore stand in Baronel's way of capturing the Blue Moon and Zero.

On a side note, for the first time in four months, the publication reaches the production. I need to be quick with the pages in the last weeks of my vacation, because I want this year to have not a single hiatus.

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In the end, Zero is defeated for choosing to sacrifice himself by taking every hard blow Baronel had tried to make on his allies. A true hero.

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Baronel made sure to leave Red Sun's heat resistant arms protecting the missile so Zero would be forced to spend his ultimate attack on another spot. In either way, the self-destruction attack would be successful.

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Zero pays his debt to Encore and absorbs a death beam in his place. However, the Kyushuken was not supposed to bear that amount of energy, which means Zero will be getting even more wounded.

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Encore was planning to do the Raditz killing move without dying in the process, but you can't just expect the enemy to let you hold him and wait for death.

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If you remember Orchestra of Lights, you should be able to guess what's coming next.

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Encore finally makes some use of his power and escapes from death again.

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Baronel is a rare case of a villain that does not like telling his secrets just because he's on top of the situation.

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Unfortunately, only common enemies have the right of being instantly killed by a Z-Saber slash.

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Through the first part of the battle, Baronel has hurt Zero enough to make it easy to handle him without the Red Sun. Although we still have two more Hunters, Red Thunder's EMP currently prevents Zero from teleporting if he is on the verge of death.

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